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School district: Order in Dusman suit was 'ambiguous'

Staff report

Updated:
08/21/2014 10:43:09 AM EDT

CHAMBERSBURG &GT;&GT; Attorneys for Chambersburg Area School District have responded to a motion asking that Superintendent Joseph Padasak be held in contempt of court for failing to reinstate Cathy Dusman to her former position with the school district.

A judge on June 30 ordered the school district to immediately reinstate Dusman to assistant superintendent at the school district.

But her attorneys claimed "CASD's 'reinstatement' is in name and pay only and is an merely a [sic] subterfuge to give the appearance of compliance with this court's order."

Attorneys for the school district responded that the order was "ambiguous" and did not assign her to the same duties as before, nor did the order limit the district's right to assign duties.